Wishing you a quick recovery from that gall bladder WOC.
Tue = 4, with 6X 1 min accelerations
Thr = 4 medium in the cemetery
Sat = 3 with last mile in 6:22
Sun = 6 easy
Total Miles = 17
Week 4 of training was another good one. I bumped up the mileage just a bit as my various injuries are staying quiet. I guess, not surprisingly, the extra miles are building durability.
I’m dropping doing weights as the amount of cross training I’m getting since I bought a home has increased quite a bit. I live on a hill that is nicely terraced. That means 5 levels of yard and 60 steps from the street to my front door. Moving from a one floor place to 3 floors has added 24 steps to my daily life that I traverse a minimum of 5 times a day. But I still need some kind of workout so I’m doing 50 pushups/crunches daily for basic upper body maintenance.
Tuesday I could not get on the track since it was full of kids, parents, dogs, baby strollers, and people walking 4 abreast. So I did the accelerations on the road, the uneven sidewalk, actually. I hit a few of them under 5 min pace but quickly fizzled out and crawled the last few.
I live exactly one half mile from a fairly large cemetery. So, stealing a page from the great Ed Whitlock I did laps in the cemetery Thursday. Mine’s not flat though and I have about a 50 foot climb on the one mile loop. I can understand the appeal of the quiet and never being bothered by traffic or, anything actually. You can really get into a rhythm. There really is something to it.
Saturday, even though I live .5 from a track, its the super busy one. So I drive 10 miles to a secluded and completely unused track. It was very windy. 16 mph sustained and 24 mph gusts but I was happy to knock a few seconds off last week’s workout and go 6:22 in my last mile.
Have a great week everyone.